+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Lot's of snow in Rhodes, on the top of the highest mountain in Rhodes island!!! These are rare photos! Why? Becasue Rhodes can see snow every 50 years, according to the scientists!!! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Father and son loging... snow everywhere!!!! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 (edited) Photos from Tilos island museum! A photo of the excavation from the cave Charkadio where the pygmy elephants were discovered!!! Bones of the pygmy elephants! these were the last elephants in europe! Because they were traped by the sea and had to live in a small island, they were turned into pygmy! the tallest was about 1.50 meters high!!! their babies were tiny!!! they were vanished 4000 years ago! In other parts of Europe and greece, the elephants were 4m high! the ancient greeks were seeing the skulls of the elephants, they didn't know what were they (ancient greeks saw elephants for the first time when the army of King Alexander went in India!!!!) and just because the skulls looked like the head of a huge man with one eye (in elephants, there is no bone seperating the eye holes!), the legent of the Cyclops was born! Since the bones were found in caves.... cyclops lived in caves!!!! Just for the record... if you are curious about elephants in prehistoric Greece.... do not forget that lions existed too! Hercules killed a lion in greece.... remember??? Edited November 16, 2009 by GATOULIS Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Tilos, Livadia from the top of a mountain! View from the balcony of the rook I was staying in Tilos!!! I loved it!!!! From the room and in the sea!!! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 (edited) byzantine and medieval frescos from ruins of small churches on our way to one of the castles in Tilos! Unfortunatelly, these beautiful frescos are left and getting destroyed by the rain the air.... the first shows the death of Virgin Mary and the other shows Jesus Christ! They are from the 14th century... or even older!!! Edited November 16, 2009 by GATOULIS Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 And at last.... the stange thing in Tilos! During the early byzantine times, there was a cemetary close to the sea! the dead were buried in the sand! After many years, the level of the sea went up and covered the cemetary! The sand was turned into stone and it enclosed the bones of the humans! In some parts this was not successful so some ofthe bones can be seen! Some skulls were brokn too! some of the graves are marked and they are very close to where the waves stop! Sometimes, these graves are out and can be seen, but most of the times they are under water but not deep!! Here is a grave out of the water (photo taken from a photo in the Tilos museum!) and the same grave when we were there! Can you see the stones making the round??? finally once again a photo taken from a photo in the museum, you can see bones (the neck) and the broken skull of the dead man! Quote Link to comment
+Droo Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Hey Nikos, thanks for showing us your neck of the woods. Quote Link to comment
+DJ.J.ROCK Posted November 16, 2009 Author Share Posted November 16, 2009 Nikos, cool shots i like the one your in the boat,, funny, you look so happy to do nothing!!! no snow!!! ill trade ya,,, i work for an apartment complex, and i had to be up at 4 AM this morning to do snow removel, we got 4-6 inches just last night!!! i hit a curb going 40 mpH on my way home when i veard into the snow and slid ,, good thing the cars ok. we got about 2-3 feet about 2 weeks ago,, and i shoveled for about 14 hrs in 2 days!!! my back did not like me after that round,, now im gonna have to send you some snow in the mail ..... some how!!! Quote Link to comment
aniyn Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 12 posts in a row? Someone's trying to stack the deck! Where I was most of last week: I found this not too far away! And another for good measure: Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Nikos, cool shots i like the one your in the boat,, funny, you look so happy to do nothing!!! no snow!!! ill trade ya,,, i work for an apartment complex, and i had to be up at 4 AM this morning to do snow removel, we got 4-6 inches just last night!!! i hit a curb going 40 mpH on my way home when i veard into the snow and slid ,, good thing the cars ok. we got about 2-3 feet about 2 weeks ago,, and i shoveled for about 14 hrs in 2 days!!! my back did not like me after that round,, now im gonna have to send you some snow in the mail ..... some how!!! huh!!!! do you know what I would love to see my friend??? snow falling from the sky!!!! In 1987, this happent to the City of Rhodes, but.... I was not in Rhodes!!!!!! No luck at all!!!! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 12 posts in a row? Someone's trying to stack the deck! Where I was most of last week: I found this not too far away! And another for good measure: WOW!!! what a beautiful place!!!!!! I would love to see it from close!!!!! Oh!!!!!! great fossil!!!! I have never seen an amonite from close! Here, the mazority of the fossils are other sea shells! I have some! Rhodes area was under water millions of years ago! So seashell fossils can be found even on the top of mountains! some are so common!! you can find them while you are walking here, in ancient stadium area!!! many are not in rocks anymore so... I do not know their age, but.. they are petrified! Rhodes is full of sandstone so they are traped inside! The sandstone is actually the sand of the bottom of the sea millions of years ago! I wish I could find a leaf or a fish one day too, but I do not think this is easy to do! if you find one in a small rock, you can take it, or laws do not allow you to do that? I think the one in the photo is in a big rock! Quote Link to comment
+Mar-elendili Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 huh!!!! do you know what I would love to see my friend??? snow falling from the sky!!!! In 1987, this happent to the City of Rhodes, but.... I was not in Rhodes!!!!!! No luck at all!!!! Wanna see snow? Come to my place in Switzerland! In winter we usually see a lot of snow falling and it's not too far from your place either! Two years ago we went ice-skating on a relatively small lake nearby. There were all sorts of cracks and loud bangs so it was impressive! The main attraction that winter was the poor fox who slid and fell into the lake as it was freezing. Rather scary but still a rare shot. Quote Link to comment
aniyn Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 I found this not too far away! if you find one in a small rock, you can take it, or laws do not allow you to do that? I think the one in the photo is in a big rock! Casual collecting on public property is allowed in my province. I'm pretty lucky in that regard. Unfortunately you're wrong on that last bit. That fossil is 1 3/4 inches long. It's probably for the best it wasn't any larger. Quote Link to comment
+Dark Elf Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 huh!!!! do you know what I would love to see my friend??? snow falling from the sky!!!! In 1987, this happent to the City of Rhodes, but.... I was not in Rhodes!!!!!! No luck at all!!!! Come and visit me in Germany GATOULIS....we will have snow in december Quote Link to comment
+WOOGIEKIDS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Hmmm...here are some pics from this weekend. Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Toledo, Spain... beautiful place to see!!! WOW!!! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 (edited) Toledo view! Sorry, no panoramic photo but you will bet an idea of how Toledo looks like! Just connect the photos in the right spots! Edited November 16, 2009 by GATOULIS Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 One of the buildings that I loved in Madrid! It is the Palace of comunications (telephones!) I just love that building!!!! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 ..and an other building in Madrid! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Parko retiro.... Madrid, Spain 1999! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 toledo, an outside wall of a church! Sorry, I do not remember the church name, but what you see, are chains! According to what they told us, this church was a very famous one when Toledo was the capital of Spain, in Medieval times! A big part of Spain was under Mauritans and many Spanish were slaves! they were praying to God to free them, see Spain free and go and pray in this church! As a gift to God they would bring the chains they had on their hands and feet! As you can see... some made it!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 a happy family in Rhodes, in a beautiful view! Many tiny islands are behind them!!! Which family is that??? GATOULIS family, some years ago! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Acropolis of Rhodes, temple of Apollo (I think it is from the 3rd century BC). This is near my house and the area has 2 caches, one micro and one normal sized! Quote Link to comment
+murphyrulez Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 (edited) a happy family in Rhodes, in a beautiful view! Many tiny islands are behind them!!! Which family is that??? GATOULIS family, some years ago! What a place to live! Edited November 18, 2009 by murphyrulez Quote Link to comment
+DJ.J.ROCK Posted November 19, 2009 Author Share Posted November 19, 2009 i have a coupple of pending trades and then ill probably pick another winner!!! Quote Link to comment
aniyn Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 2 more before the deadline (I hope): Quote Link to comment
+zoesbrother Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Abondoned lighthouse tower in Greenbay, WI. It was a 3.5 mile water hike to take this picture. Headed back to the car after walking 4 miles out into the middle of the Bay of Green Bay. Quote Link to comment
+zoesbrother Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Oh some of the things you will find while geocaching in northern Wisconsin. Quote Link to comment
+zoesbrother Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Tip of Longtail Point. 3.5 miles from the car My giant snowfort built by hand no machinery used Crater Lake Quote Link to comment
aniyn Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Crater Lake Oooo, pretty! Quote Link to comment
+zoesbrother Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Crater Lake Oooo, pretty! I'm sure some are thinking I grabbed it off the internet but I didn't. My family took a trip out west. We took a picture in the Morning, Afternoon, and at dusk. Quote Link to comment
+zoesbrother Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Mt. St. Helens Mt. Ranier A day I will never forget. Driving over a flooded road way in an RV up in Alaska in the middle of nowhere. Ice from a glacier in Alaska. Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 WOW!!! The blue ice is so beautiful!!! It is probably blue becasue it is drinkable water and one of the cleanest the exists! WOW!!!! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 These photos are taken with my mobile phone in the archeological area of Ancient Acropolis of Rhodes, near my house! Here is a small theatre that was built in the 2nd century BC! Many parts were reebuilt when we had Italian occupation! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 The temple of Apollo..... Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Very close to the temple! The columns seem to be gigantic.....praying fingers turned to the God asking salvation..... Some parts were once again restored by Italians! that is the reason you can see iron sticks..... Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 the "turn" in the ancient stadium of Rhodes! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 ok... today I went for geocaching in the southernest part of Rhodes island.... hmmm actually I was not even on rhodes island! I was in prassonisi! Prassonisi is a tiny island that is connected with Rhodes with a sand road! During winter, many times the sand road is under water and the island is ceperated from Rhodes! here is Rhodes and the sand road...from prassonisi! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 here is the same thing for an other spot.... Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 (edited) is that somehow a benchmark? It is says Geographical service of the Greek army 1975! It is in a column that shows the highest spot of the island! I forgot to mention that there is a place for a nymber, but there is no number on it!!!! Edited November 22, 2009 by GATOULIS Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 A hidden tiny beach in prassonisi!!! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 the lighthouse we had to go... still a long way to reach it..... Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 The sea wasso calm... it was so hot and sunny.... here... a sun ray is showing us the way..... Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Rocks.... This is probably the southernest spot of Rhodes.... after these rocks.... the first land you will see is Africa (I think Libya or Egypt) Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 the lighthose who guards the cache and say hello to ships! Quote Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 All these photos are taken from my mobile so they are not very good! Sorry! Here.... a mystery to me! This is at the begining of the island Prassonisi, about 200 meters away from the area that the sand road ends! In the area there is an old stone made house (?) and this! It looks like a grave but there is no name on it!!! It looks quite old but what story has to tell??? A shipwreak? An accident? The grave of the only man who was staying on the island??? It is still a mystery to me that I have to find out! Quote Link to comment
+murphyrulez Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Bring a shovel and pickaxe!!! You will find out very quickly! Quote Link to comment
+Twitch Hugs Trees Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 As an aspiring photographer, I'll jump in on this one! (My first "cointest" so still not so sure how this works. What the hell might as well post first, research later.) A picture I took at a concert, the light falling on the crowd looks like some divine happening. A cute Irish cottage. (Linked thumbnail because the picture is big.) Quote Link to comment
+Droo Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Crater Lake Oooo, pretty! I'm sure some are thinking I grabbed it off the internet but I didn't. My family took a trip out west. We took a picture in the Morning, Afternoon, and at dusk. I'd love to see the one taken at dusk. Quote Link to comment
+Droo Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 As an aspiring photographer, I'll jump in on this one! (My first "cointest" so still not so sure how this works. What the hell might as well post first, research later.) A cute Irish cottage. (Linked thumbnail because the picture is big.) I love the little cottage.... very colourful and the thatched roof is adorable. I wonder why they need to post a PRIVATE sign in the window? Quote Link to comment
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